Rio Tinto fired Tom Albanese, the chief executive, last month after announcing it was slashing the value of its aluminum business and Mozambique coal assets, the latest in a string of write-downs on pricey acquisitions.
Reading a string of gobbledygook written on a scrap of paper is a low-tech ritual.
'Il Re Pastore,' a string of arias written with an unfailing sense of grace and beauty, but without the least suspicion of dramatic power".
Before long, a group of eight engineers had homed in on a string of cleverly written code that the designers of SoBig had encrypted, and the engineers decided that was the nut they needed to crack.
But the rousing applause came for a string of programming code, written partly in the hot new Internet standard, XML -- for Extensible Markup Language -- that was projected onto giant blue screens and performed precisely as it was supposed to.
Local activists said fellow journalists had recently started to fear for Oudom's safety, as a result of a string of stories he wrote about deforestation and timber smuggling in the province.
In a string of tweets, he wrote: "Having just been to Gerard Batten's [Ukip MEP] office in Ilford, the almost [sic] absence of white faces in Ilford is worrying.
Hughes himself would later shift to a string of Christmas movies, writing National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (a spinoff story featuring characters Hughes originally developed for the first Vacation film), Home Alone and a sequel, and the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street.
How does a child learn to extract language from a sea of sounds and later learn to decode meaning from strings of written symbols?
"Until that heel hobbled him, his play was like a string of perfect sentences," he writes.
